Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Volume II

The age of the earth is an important issue in Christianity today. If the six-day Genesis account is fallacious, then how can the rest of Scripture be relied upon? Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative addresses the issues raised by the RATE I technical book in 2000.

The RATE team dared to ask tough questions and has discovered that radioactive dating methods and their results are not thorough, consistent or reliable. One of the "pillars" of old-earth evolution really supports the scriptural account of "in the beginning." More Information

Free Download of RATE II — click on the chapters below:

• Table of Contents (PDF)
• Chapter 1: Introduction (PDF)
• Chapter 2: Young Helium Diffusion Age of Zircons Supports Accelerated Nuclear Decay
• Chapter 3: Radiohalos in Granites: Evidence for Accelerated Nuclear Decay
• Chapter 4: Fission Tracks in Zircons: Evidence for Abundant Nuclear Decay
• Chapter 5: Do Radioisotope Clocks Need Repair? Testing the Assumptions of Isochron Dating Using K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, and Pb-Pb Isotopes
• Chapter 6: Isochron Discordances and the Role of Inheritance and Mixing of Radioisotopes in the Mantle and Crust
• Chapter 7: Accelerated Decay: Theoretical Considerations
• Chapter 8: Carbon-14 Evidence for a Recent Global Flood and a Young Earth
• Chapter 9: Statistical Determination of Genre in Biblical Hebrew: Evidence for an Historical Reading of Genesis 1:1-2:3
• Chapter 10: Summary of Evidence for a Young Earth from the RATE Project (PDF)
• Index (PDF)
• Inside Covers (PDF)